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'''Eedrah Ro'Jethhe''' was the son of [[Jethhe Ro'Jethhe]], a landholder in [[Terahnee]]. | '''Eedrah Ro'Jethhe''' was the son of [[Jethhe Ro'Jethhe]], a landholder in [[Terahnee]]. | ||
As a child, Eedrah came down with a severe and nearly fatal fever while playing in an outdoor orchard. A [[Relyimah ( | As a child, Eedrah came down with a severe and nearly fatal fever while playing in an outdoor orchard. A [[Relyimah (Terahnee|slave]] gathering fruit in the orchard found him and carried him inside, saving his life. The slave was later killed by the [[P'aarli]] "for the impertinence of touching a master."<ref name="BoD p5 sec 16">''[[Myst Reader]]''. Ebook. ''The Book of D'ni'', Part five, section 16.</ref> As a result of this incident, Eedrah never developed the mental dissociation that prevented most Terahnee people from being able to "see" their slaves. When he was fifteen, he visited a slave Age where the ''relyimah'' were stolen from, and came to understand the true depth of the cruelty underlying Terahnee's civilization. | ||
Unfortunately, people like Eedrah were a rarity in Terahnee society. In a conversation with [[Atrus]], he revealed that fewer than one in ten thousand of his people shared his views on Terahnee's chattel slavery industry.<ref name="BoD p5 sec 16" /> As a result, Eedrah was never able to have an impact on the practice as a whole, though he developed a relationship with the slaves in his own family's manor and did what he could to help them. The relyimah looked kindly on him, and gave him the nickname "Renyaloth"{{mdash}}a word meaning "the sickly one". | Unfortunately, people like Eedrah were a rarity in Terahnee society. In a conversation with [[Atrus]], he revealed that fewer than one in ten thousand of his people shared his views on Terahnee's chattel slavery industry.<ref name="BoD p5 sec 16" /> As a result, Eedrah was never able to have an impact on the practice as a whole, though he developed a relationship with the slaves in his own family's manor and did what he could to help them. The relyimah looked kindly on him, and gave him the nickname "Renyaloth"{{mdash}}a word meaning "the sickly one". | ||
